AN ACADEMIC-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX? “Dr. Jackson and Dr. Sample are part of a cozy and lucrative club: presidents and other senior university officials who cross from academia into the business world to serve on corporate boards. . . . According to a 2008 survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education, presidents from 19 of the top 40 research universities with the largest operating budgets sat on at least one company board.” This is best understood not through standard conflict-of-interest analysis, but through the lens of Angelo Codevilla’s ruling class analysis.